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- 24 May 1965-27 October 1969 (Creation)
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Comprises correspondence on the subject of communication between honey bees, and on arranging a seminar at the Salk Institute on 'The Evolution of the Language of the Bees' to be given by Dr Harald Esch (department of Biology, University of Notre Dame) followed by a discussion with Adrian Wenner and Harry Laidlow.
Correspondents are Adrian M Wenner (department of Biological Sciences, University of California at Santa Barbara), Harald Esch, Harry H Laidlow (department of Entomology, University of California at Davis), and Seymour Benzer (division of Biology, California Institute of Technology).
Also includes a press release from the Salk Institute about the seminar, and a reprint of 'Simple Conditioning in Honey Bees' by Adrian Wenner and Dennis Johnson ('Animal Behaviour, vol. 14, no. 1, 1966).